And so ends another year… (2016)

I know it is only the 23rd of December today, but I’m pretty sure I’m done posting for the year. I’m off now until the first week of January and will be enjoying a break with my family. 2016 was a difficult year for the blog and website. I was tempted on numerous occasions to…

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Casino’s future will be clearer Friday

From Niagara This Week: The future of one of Niagara’s two casinos will become clearer Friday. The fate of Casino Niagara, which first opened its doors in 1996, will be announced at a news conference at 1 p.m. at the facility, said Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor on Tuesday. Closing Casino Niagara was one of…

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Niagara aquarium expands to protect threatened penguins

From the Toronto Star: A Niagara Falls aquarium is expanding so it can breed and protect the threatened Humboldt penguin.

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Confidentiality oath should stay: Minister’s office

From the Niagara Falls Review: Ontario’s Tourism Minister appears ready to accept decisions by Niagara Falls and Fort Erie to reappoint their same representatives to the Niagara Parks Commission, despite his request for fresh faces. “Ultimately, the nomination of representatives is a decision that rests with the individual municipality,” Liberal Tourism Minister Michael Chan said…

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Twitter updates for 2010-04-05

Obviously things are a little slower than on the weekend, but there was still a surprising number of people out and around today # RT @Ripleys_Niagara Ripley's Believe it or Not! NF to host World Famous Fertility Statues September 4-26 2010 Touch at your own Risk! #

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    Niagara Falls in Spring

    Technically Spring ended just 5 days ago, so I’m not really that late… Several weeks ago I took a series of pictures of Niagara Falls in Spring. This is something I try to do each year (Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005), and although the pictures generally look the same year to year (the Falls…

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    Restoring The Niagara Gorge

    From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: The Niagara Gorge is one of the oldest and most spectacular natural landscapes in Western New York.

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      Tourism’s perfect storm relents

      From the Niagara Falls Review: Tim Parker was wrong when he predicted a 10 per cent decline in the city’s tourism industry this year. But the general manager of Ripley’s Niagara Falls said he’s not sorry. “If I could retract my story from June, I would,” Parker said this week, after a day filled with…

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